Film event in collaboration with DIS / CCARMS and National Student Pride

The School for the Creative and Cultural Industries is delighted to present the latest screening of the SCCI Cinema Club in collaboration with National Student Pride, the UCL Department of Information Studies and UCL's Centre for Critical Archives & Records Management Studies. Taking place at the One Pool Street Cinema at UCL East, we will be hosting a series of free screenings, sharing the films that have inspired and influenced researchers, artists, and practitioners across our creative community. The event is open to members of the general public.

Lucy Brownson, Lecturer in Archives and Records Management and tutor on Information in Society BSc, has selected The Watermelon Woman directed by and starring Cheryl Dunye.

Lucy says: "The Watermelon Woman is genre-bending in multiple ways, combining humour, elements of (auto)biography, critical fabulation and mockumentary to interrogate the marginalisation of queer Black women and women of colour in both cinema history and archival organisations (even those labouring under the banner of ‘community’). In so doing, it asks vital questions about representational and reparatory work within and beyond archives, about who gets to do the work of making histories and worlds, and about who is forcibly placed in the margins. To mark LGBT+ History Month, I’ve selected this film because it reckons with the limitations and possibilities of queer and feminist archival work, something which has deeply influenced my own practice as a community archivist and educator.”

Please visit the Eventbrite here to confirm a place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scci-cinema-club-presents-cheryl-dunyes-the-watermelon-woman-tickets-1112661864589?aff=oddtdtcreator